Enough Rambled: Journal Concluded (Summum Bomus)

The Half-Satori journey has reached its natural conclusion. This process journal will stay online for a record on the process of sorting out slices of the universe into a coalescing weave of awareness. One day I'll be a comedian. Or a heavy metal artist. Let's see which way the world turns after the Mayan '12 illusions are through with. The tables are turning in the mirror, the backstage is full of inversions. Meanwhile, I'm playing the sama-data-matrix game for creating a symmetric open-source insight commons. What a grand journey to nowhere!

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Conscious evolution is a process of refinement from the grosser to the subtler. Whoever lets go of particular attachment and moves towards the general commonality of life, he/she can easily learn simpler and more efficient methods of natural and systematic communication. From speaking in sutra-compressed algorithmic phrases to exploring basal sounds and the origins of semantic and cognitive patternation; from understanding natural symbols and signals to using any binary-capable "device" for transmitting communication. The more subtle the mind becomes, the more insight it will be able to absorb from less content. We're simply too wordy and complicated for our own good. We need a process of semantic dissolution to dissolve the knots.

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It's hardly surprising that the content in this process journal may not communicate much for those unfamiliar with the classic and ancient sources of systematized knowledge I've explored for the greater part of my short life — or for those without background in open introspective contemplation for that matter. These writings come from a phase where I was into in-depth practice of Hindu and Buddhist methods of meditation, parsing through their nature-based ontologies, and attempting to abstract the whole lot into more general terms. What you read here is probably a bit easier to absorb than classic Buddhist suttas or Hindu cosmology, for example. It isn't exactly "hands-on particular" in terms of modern applicability though. Some conscious effort required.

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The archived writings in the Half-Satori journal— whatever of it may make sense — have been based on following a self-evident binary pattern of coalescence and paired unification that appears in countless permutations and vectors of interdependent generation in both the natural and the social world. Here's that same old basic pattern again — certainly not my invention — in three levels of bipolar composites (unary, binary, ternary):

 ∞ 000 001 010 011 ⋅ 100 101 110 111 ⋅ 00 01 10 11 ⋅ 0 1 ½ ∞ EOL.

Our choice of dual pairings for algorithmic balance is immaterial — the basic levels and junctions of the pattern equate as independent of its semantic variables. I've collected some sets of symbols at http://wisdom.com.es/ for an illustration of how such patterns can be modeled in practical environments. If you see there a matrix that talks to you, please let me know and toss in some reflections using the comment-feature. If you're on Facebook, please join the "Branches of the World Tree" discussion group to exchange perspectives.

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— While I've used a number of "spiritual" frameworks, so-called, over the years to complement my understanding of the basic patterns that underlie our conscious processes, more recently I've worked towards turning it into something concrete — in any scenario whatever, to ensure it's abstract and subtle enough. If the so-called "transcendent" fails to become "immanent" in the here-and-now, in whichever context, it becomes altogether irrelevant for anything but advancing one's subjective sense of enthused living experience.

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— Leaders and followers are obsolete. Masters and disciples are obsolete. Gurus and laghus are obsolete. Humans and non-humans are obsolete. Only the absolute is non-obsolete. What is that absolute? That unified state, in which the ego-self does not interfere in the paired dancing and interdependent flux of nature. Thence onward, it's blips and blops dancing together in the axial hall of mirrors; who cares for the little self when the world is a pattern just the same as the self in itself, reflected above as below in the mirror of the mind.

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— It's best to act as a transparent co-median. Who cares for another fat-hat tripper on a high seat. For that matter, who cares for another tip-hat groveler at the bottom of the floor either. Natural complementarity ascends the low and descends the high; leveling the field into a plateau of seamless exchange between interdependent peers. — That is a healthy way forward; not a recycling of the old dualistic paradigm that merely enforces separation, where coalescence should unfold at this junction of our civilization. Those who care for religions, however, can follow Swami Blogannatha 2.0 who's been watching the internets for some time now via the Anonymous Matrix of integration. Homma-Humma-Hum — Legions!! http://www.gobloga.com/ <— Maybe better not go there after all.

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Now here's something patently scary to establish a grave concluding point to all these ramblings. Better let the whole lot of this crazy-complicated world rest in the lap of Alpha and Omega in the potentive Quantum Axis in the median of awareness and patterns; happiness and distress; spirit and matter; light and darkness; above and below; outside and inside; living and dead; or butter and bread; or perhaps nirvana nevermind instead. Better to resolve that perennial tangle of conflicted interests in the fragmented mirror of awareness; and then let all phenomena rest and flow in their interdependent nature; in freedom from a concrete and fixated self that asserts itself over others.

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= 2x:4x:8x — Triune Levels: Short Ascending Coalescence =

0~00~000 | 0~00~001 | 0~01~010 | 0~01~011 |
1~10~100 | 1~10~101 | 1~11~110 | 1~11~111 |

☻~☻☻~☻☻☻ | ☻~☻☻~☻☻☺ | ☻~☻☺~☻☺☻ | ☻~☻☺~☻☺☺ |
☺~☺☻~☺☻☻ | ☺~☺☻~☺☻☺ | ☺~☺☺~☺☺☻ | ☺~☺☺~☺☺☺ |
 

= 2x:4x:8x — Triune Levels: Short Descending Coalescence =

1~11~111 | 1~11~110 | 1~10~101 | 1~10~100 |
0~01~011 | 0~01~010 | 0~00~001 | 0~00~000 |

☺~☺☺~☺☺☺ | ☺~☺☺~☺☺☻ | ☺~☺☻~☺☻☺ | ☺~☺☻~☺☻☻ |
☻~☻☺~☻☺☺ | ☻~☻☺~☻☺☻ | ☻~☻☻~☻☻☺ | ☻~☻☻~☻☻☻ |

 

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If you venture deep enough into the darkness, you will enter the grave. In that pitch-black grave, there's an impenetrable black sarcophagus oozing with sparks of translucent crystal-blue essence. That is the dynamic cognition-essence; and the other is the static pattern-essence. When these two implode and boil into a non-differentiating weave of complementary and seamless unison, the seer and the seen become translucent in the mirror of the non-self-continuum.

 

For all those asking about "spiritual things" so-called; the path of dissolution (nivritti-nirvana) is the path that I best understand. This is where I came from; and this is where I will return. Anything that is "I" is destined to perish in the battle of the ancient powers of awareness. I have nothing here that I care to offer as a bridge of bondage for people who are unwilling to let go of the ever-subjective, ever-biasing, ever-projecting, ever-dependent self. I've been there and done that, and really it's not my thing.

 

It is best when each individual follows their own straight and natural process(es), experienced as immanent both self and its shared environment, in basal and immediately accessible terms. Face the raw and uncertain self in the cave of your deepest and morbid'est fears. Find their root; terminate their root; liberate the natural flow. Real rock-bottom and sacrifice of self-interest makes the spirit healthy again; then maybe some "spiritual life" and automagical Moo-cows roaming in a hive-land of interlinked quantum awareness sometime afterwards. Now, let's enter that inner cave...

 

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— "In the midnight of the Dark New Moon, mystified by the unseen and the unknown, the twelve seers of wisdom wished for a journey to the Cave of the Underworld. It became a true inner quest to uncover the experience of the bare self, the plain nature of suffering, the equanimity that rests in such abiding, and the wisdom that is locked therein. This, they reasoned among themselves, would reveal the root of the unseen shackles that enforce the bondage of this world. Then, prepared with the physical, emotional and rational requisites for such an undertaking, free of fear they aimed on the path of smoke into deep darkness..."

 

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vidyāṁ cāvidyāṁ ca yas tad vedobhayaṁ saha |
avidyayā mṛtyuṁ tīrtvā vidyayāmṛtam aśnute || Isopanisad 11

"Knowledge and ignorance, who understands the two together;
via nescience he transcends death — via knowledge he revels in ambrosia."

 

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— "Mahā-parinibbāna-sutta, the Buddha's final series of teachings, in outlining his systematic path of sentient resolution, features a noteworthy set of "eight liberations" ("aṭṭha vimokkhā"). This ladder for the wholesome resolution of conditioned awareness presents us with a sequential experience of emancipation and enlightenment — first in understanding and reconciling forms; then in understanding space and awareness; then in understanding non-space and non-awareness; then in attaining the resolution of individuated awareness." 

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Two friendly pigeons were longing for their love;
One of them sought high, the other one sought low;

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Two friendly pigeons were dreaming of their life;
One of them for husband, the other one for wife;

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Two friendly pigeons were nesting in their tree;
One of them would hear, the other one would see;

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Two friendly pigeons were flying in the wind;
One of them flew forth, the other one behind;

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Two friendly pigeons were planning for an egg;
One of them would borrow, the other one would beg;

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Two friendly pigeons were protecting their nest;
One of them would watch, the other one would rest;

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Two friendly pigeons soon matured their chick;
One of them would groom, the other one would pick;

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Three friendly pigeons then danced amid their nest;
All of them were different, united each was best!

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You can explode-implode and reach back to the big bang if you must...

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Or you can service the Inputs and Outputs in their natural motion...

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Wherever you move in the system or outside the system
— never forget that a life of humor is embedded in the process!

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~ ... You didn't think this would end without ontology charts now, did you!! ~

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~ You didn't think this would end without the Pyramids of Giza now, did you!! ~

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— Friendly fellows are running on the air;
— Time is running still, level'd highest hill;
— Pattern watchers are sitting in the cave;
— Fabric is dissolved, problems are resolved...
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Dichotomy of Light and Darkness

Winter solstice, past by a mere moment now, marks the transition from darkness to light, from death to new life. Yet one more cycle in the grand order of nature has rolled its course and revolves anew, the time of renewal is at hand. While the Indians were also very aware of the peaks and transitions in the universal cycles, especially so in the ancient Vedic times, it was in the North where the extremes stated their presence.

Many of you may have been following Uma's series on the old pagan celebration of Yule, the rebirth of Mother Nature, later remodeled into a grand Christian celebration with an eerie abundance of pagan symbols and practices. While the celebration of these transitions of universal reach indeed has its place in the mesocosmic sphere, a natural turn in the human fabric of old, it is not those I write of today. I'm about to dig deeper into the superficiality of the good-evil duality often imposed on worlds of light and darkness.

The Ancient Aryan Divide

The division into good and evil is regrettably not as clear-cut as God versus Lucifer or Christ versus Antichrist, a lesson well learned from the ancient Indian evolution of religion. Vasistha was among the leading Vedic seers, while for the Zoroastrians he was among the villains. While asuras were the bad guys for the Vedic seers, Ahura-Mazda (or Asura-Maya in Sanskrit, a close relative of the Avestan language of the Parsis) was the lead monotheistic deity of the Zend-Avesta scripture.

These two polar religions came to plant the seeds of two very different religious traditions. Zoroaster was a grand-ancestor for the doctrines of a dual god and anti-god, the expectance of a messiah and a linear approach to the cosmic order. The Abrahamic tradition, or Judaism, Christianity and Islam, evolved in a mixture of Zoroastrian ideals and the ongoing evolutions in Egyptian and Middle-Eastern native polytheistic systems.

A whole different branch and orientation of religion, the greater part of which goes under the loose label of Hinduism in the contemporary world, evolved from the root of the ancestry of Vedic seers. Hinduism as we know it is a loose amalgamation of distinct traditions that evolved under shared cultural premises, a most heterogeneous compilation held together with unitarian texts such as the Bhagavad-gita.

The fact that the two religious divides forming the vast majority of the Earth's population is on a deep level divided almost as deep and fundamentally as the grand cosmic order of the ancient cultures is every bit as exciting as it is scaring. It is then little wonder that the Abrahamic dualist heritage has always sought to reform all known cultures and peoples into the faith of the one true savior, one supreme deity and one word of god, or a succession of subsequent revelations in the case of later traditions.

The Indic tradition, on the other hand, unsubscribed from an ontology that assigned them among the evil, in both its root movements. While the direct descendant of the brahmana-tradition, the heritage of the Vedic seers, maintained a sense of duality evident in the legends of the Puranas, it was against a canvas of higher, nondual ideas evolving from the old Upanishads, tense and often asystematic philosophical discourses that sought the deepest essence of the Vedic sacrifical religion. The Sramana tradition, to which the Buddhists and the Jains are the only surviving heirs, sought to eliminate the realm of duality altogether, and in doing that went so far as to do away with the supreme deity himself.

The roots of the ancient good-evil divide appear to lie in an ancient conflict tearing apart a single cultural heritage, a world where the devas and the asuras dwelled together. Mitra and Varuna, a dual deity of whom the latter is well known as an oceanic deity in the Puranic lore, are in fact among the asuras of the Rig-vedic tradition — asuras receiving oblations just as the devas did. The details of the evolution effectively reduce the concept of an absolute, primordial divide into a partition much more complicated and human, into the internal disagreements of an ancient sacrificial, fire-worshiping culture.

Powers of Light and Darkness

Neither light nor darkness possess inherent ethical value; they are neutral potentials reposed in their own nature. As darkness clouds, creates mystery and brings towards unity, light unveils, explains and exposes a vast arena of plurality prior to growing so bright as to grow all-engulfing, thereby becoming essentially one with darkness again, a field of a single, undivided nature containing all of reality in its ever-vibrant lap. (Udesidning: An ancient Nordic way of integration in darkness.)

Nothing is good or evil of its own nature; all depends on the application, and moreover the applier. Magic is neither good nor evil owing to its technical procedure of conjuration, whether born of light or darkness, white or black. The divider of good and evil is in the human choice between benevolence and malevolence, between sacrificing and feeding the egotic drive consuming its objects to grow stronger.

A transcender of duality wields light and darkness with equal might, regardless of his preference, a preference that in its fundamental essence is only a latent sensation of the past, a game or an amusement of sorts, unbinding to the player who has ascended from a participancy to entertained spectatorship. Having seen the pinnacles of light and darkness under the ancient egotic drive, one evolves into a seer of non-duality, experiencing the inherent voidness of reality as we know it.

With the diffusion of apparent essence and substance into ethereal streams, one transcends stereotypic moral assessments and dwells in a lasting perception of inherent and foundational unity, even while an adept conventionalist as needed in the common world. The art of life has now been mastered.

The Old Pagan Approach

While the philosophical sophistication of Indic traditions is often lacking in ancient native religions, they do an amicable job in the practical transcendence of duality in living in a seamless harmony with nature and gods in their own world of mythos. In fact, many ancient native traditions supersede the seclusion-seeking Indic mystics in their ability to interact with plurality in a state of active integration, perhaps with a flavor of the smooth and flowing natural Tao of the Chinese — a quality I've always been in tremendous awe of!

The action-in-knowledge tradition also found its exponents among the Buddhists with the gradual evolution of Buddhism first into Mahayana, and onwards into an admixture with the tantric tradition especially prominent in Tibet. In the Tibetan model, Hinayana and Mahayana, or the lesser and the greater vehicles, are stepping stones into the highest dimension of vajra-sattva, the lightning-strata, where one becomes a wielder of cosmic powers, conquering and subjugating the energetic release produced in the meeting of the fundamental dualities of nature, the energetic bases of archetypal male and female energy, personified as the man and the woman of the human world.

Transcending and mastering the fundamental fabric of existence, the conscious being evolves into a god-like state of integration with the flow of the cosmos, unveiling the infinite peace and inner ecstasy ever-present in the ultimate non-dual god-experience. Consciousness employs a third strata beyond light and darkness, the infinite halls of existence itself. Night turns into a day and day yet again into a night. Winter falls over the fertile summer fields, spring awakens Mother Nature to life anew. Light and darkness rise and fall time and again of their own accord; the wheel of existence revolves forevermore.

The Lady's Bluebells

whence cometh the shining,
whence cometh the silent midnight breeze?
whence cometh the heaven's comets,
whence the prophet's tale of god?

thence, my lady, come the seeds of love and grace
thence the bluebells, tender, sweet and soft
thence the wonders, sparks of mother great divine
thence the pixie dust, ambrosial rains of heaven's flavor

whence cometh the shadows,
whence cometh the berserk, savage rage?
whence cometh the lords of pandemonium,
whence the darkness of the human mind?

thence, my lady, grow the roots of fear and terror
thence the eerie shrieks of darkest night
thence the devils, rays of samael the dark
thence the night of devastation, wrath and fury of demise.